www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a... from @rawsignal.ca is worth reading. there's an expression 不順手 that encapsulates this concept of using the wrong tool, or using it poorly. like using a screwdriver at a tilted angle, or a hammer instead of screwdriver. a system works efficiently (順手) or it doesn't.

Feeling this quote as a fairly new manager. “Management is nearly unique as a discipline in that most people doing it were trained to do something else, promoted because of that other skillset, and given little to no guidance on how to do their current job”

Team @rawsignal.ca is in @theglobeandmail.com talking dead rats in frying pans and transformation www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

How, you might ask, did the rat get *into* the frying pan? www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

My favourite newsletter continues to be my favourite. "Catastrophically deadass backwards wrong."

Another banger by @rawsignal.ca

Holy crap it’s been 20 years since The Show with @zefrank.bsky.social

It's not just you--job hunting today really is a beast. As @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social put it, the front door is fucked. The secret? Focus on connecting with actual human people. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

The number of questions we've gotten from bosses in the last year who are really trying their best to both manage their teams, their goals and commitments to the org, and their org's AI mandates, but where those things are all entirely out of alignment with each other... this is everywhere.

On AI, margin pressure, and outsourcing all the best parts of work. Oh, and on inventing tomorrow. How's that for clickbait?

Shocking, I know. But the loudest conflict going on at work right now is not between prod and eng.

Some sane and pithy thoughts amidst the AI froth: mailchi.mp/rawsignal/no...

This is what it sounds like when grown-ups talk about AI. Johnathan and Melissa are absolute legends. (this is a @rawsignal.ca stan account) youtu.be/ncmuXQGGqBM?...

This is a really great conversation with @rawsignal.ca about the AI boom, what's going on inside tech companies with adoption, and what it means for the future of work.

The most accurate description of the job market right now.

Yes! This! “…management is a specifically human practice that seeks to get the best from a group of people by aligning their individual talents, motivations, and creativity with clearly communicated goals and opportunities. Good management centres the humanity of each employee…”

“Questions slow you down.” Yes! Exactly why I love them.

Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

@matthewhughes.bsky.social Appreciated the manifesto very much. Thanks for writing it.

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Is this just another hype cycle you can ignore until it dies off? Maybe. But our sense is that this one's gonna be different. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

@alexriehl.com your Q&A on Moltbook with Paterson was great, thanks for writing it

"Doing harm at scale requires infrastructure." So good, from @johnathan.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social I always read World's Best Newsletter, but this one I am going to save and reread. mailchi.mp/rawsignal/yo...

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Hey, this is really nice and thank you. <3 Also, everyone listen to Laura. Go sign up. worldsbestnewsletter.com

If you manage people, and you don't read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter... well, that's probably fine but you definitely should start. On managing teams when you don't have the relevant expertise: "The tools are getting faster but the core issue was never that you were bullshitting slowly."

We need to acknowledge that the fake-it-and-hope-no-one-notices approach to management is having a real moment right now. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

WE DID IT 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Gotta say, if you are in Canadian tech, @aleksagan.bsky.social is someone you should be reading more.

Hey. Hey. Hey. Northern hemisphere folks. You made it. Tomorrow the days start getting longer again. ❤️

Toronto go see the sunrise right now if you can ❤️

This is the most human piece I've read in a long time. Highly recommend taking a break and sitting with it for a while. sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Whole lotta Games Industry CEOs and Shareholders that need to read this one.

If your org is on your seventh layoff or Lord-have-mercy, your 82nd re-org, we suggest that it's time to take a hard look at your underlying planning issues... www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social reading your book right now and chapter three is fucking 🔥. Really appreciate the integrative, inter-disciplinary approach you’re taking with it. Thanks for writing this.

Little known fact. This is how @johnathan.bsky.social and I write our newsletter every two weeks.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.

It's about the e/acc chuckleheads, and we've already gotten a complaint about The Language and bsky I don't know how you could ask for more, really.

wake up babe we’re rousing the creatures that have slumbered beneath our feet for centuries www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Folks who study meaning at work have three buckets. We love a good three-bucket framework. Let's go. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...